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Yeah. Possibly a black swan knowledge (every swan is white until a black one is found much later) but can't be accepted as valid until someone else verified it.
by raihansaputra 6y ago
Yeah. Possibly a black swan knowledge (every swan is white until a black one is found much later) but can't be accepted as valid until someone else verified it.
- garbagetime 6y agoDoesn't matter if some specific language lacks recursion. UG refers to a capacity of the human mind: if it happens to be the case that there is some language which does not feature recursion, that does not show that humans do not have that capacity. Just like how if there was a person somewhere who had grown up in isolation and never learned a language wouldn't show anything about UG.
- bedobi 6y agoBut don't you see how you've just made the hypothesis unfalsifiable?
- garbagetime 6y agoDo you also think the claims that dogs can talk or that humans can fly are unfalsifiable? All we are discussing is a biological system, and biological systems are things that may be investigated.